'Laughter is the great unifier' - behind the incredible life of Molly Ivins

[lordsummerisle]

Raise Hell, a new documentary about the great Texas columnist, sends an urgent message from the Bush years to a nation under Trump with sharp humour

After Pat Buchanan delivered an infamous speech at the 1992 Republican convention, couching the struggle with Democrats in terms of a “cultural war”, columnist Molly Ivins wrote that it “probably sounded better in the original German”. She did not live to cover a Trump rally.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/mar/18/molly-ivins-raise-hell-documentary

[Gothmog]

1. Molly Ivins was a St. John's School grad

My older two children went to St. John's

[Initech]

2. Who doesn't love to laugh?

Maybe Trump? That's about it?

[ms liberty]

3. K&R. Molly was and is still a treasure. n/t

[underpants]

4. "Raise hell. Think of something to make the ridiculous look ridiculous."